Heather Nightwine picks through debris on the front porch of her trailer, where her boyfriend Byron Holveck was shot and killed by Marion County Sheriff's deputies Sunday.

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Kurt Moore
The Marion Star

A preliminary investigation suggests the Sunday evening shooting of an armed man by county sheriff's officers may be a case of "suicide by cop."

The term describes the act of engaging in a behavior that leads a police officer to respond with deadly force. Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey said officers heard from Byron L. Holveck's girlfriend, Heather Nightwine, that he told her earlier in the day he was going to "commit suicide by cop."

Maj. Aaron Corwin and Deputy Michael Wheeler, the two officers involved in the shooting, remain on administrative leave while the Ohio Bureau of Criminal ...